Talkshow Boy (Adrian Trajstman, b.1985, Aquarius) pushes his romantic, aesthetic and political agendas to the sounds of cute majorchordal breakbeats, tiny melodic cut-ups and anemic blastbeats. Think of the songs of pagans filtered through mid-90s Euro dancepop - asinine handclap bullshit paired with obligatory fandom-centric shoutouts (mainly Twin Peaks and Neighbours).

On his third viciously human album, Testosterone!, Trajstman plays the role of Tomyum Texmex, a young upstart determined to own his zone and “keep it real’n’shit” in a world saturated with wack mash-ups, ‘boys clubs’ and P2P2P2P2P. Hard pop collages collide with ringtone remixes as Texmex spits directives over twenty-first century tone cycles. Testosterone! is an album about positive action and seizing slogans – it is an album that celebrates “just doing it” and acknowledges the gorgeous global network of young punks into subcultural subversion that help keep things DTE.

Original liner notes: "THE STORY SO FAR... After the great tech fall-out of 2005, pop had overheated past boiling point. Plundering 'retro' samples was old hat, mashing tracks was deemed wack and electro blo-wave gave way to po-faced neo-no-wave. SFW. Y'all needed a shake-up. Talkshow Boy (AKA Tomyum Texmex) began his own personal shake-up back in 1985 when he popped out of the womb - he'll quit being self-righteous at the gate of his tomb. Testosterone and Estrogen were harnessed within his body as driving forces to realising his vision - 60 years (and counting) of pop reclaimed and redefined to articulate and underscore one life. Tomyum Texmex and his Ringtone Remix proved to be popular with The Youth Sector - these young punks understood more about cultural subversion than your average bunch of deathcult disciples after their next set of dirty teenage kicks. The Youth Sector (shining stars) fully understood that they too could "just do it" and in turn "just did it" - hundreds more Talkshow Boys and Gameshow Girls were thus born. It was nothing new - Tomyum Texmex was just one of thousands of upstarts owning their zone. Even so, there's only one Talkshow Boy - two words, one vision: "keep it real'n'shit". Keep one eye on sharp kin the globe over and the other eye glued to the media - take absolutely every slogan and every pitch they carelessly throw at your demographic and use them, child, use them. Don't eat them." 
credits
released January 24, 2006

Tomyum Texmex: Adrian Trajstman. Featuring sexy guest vocals by: Katy Keene (Gameboy/Gamegirl, Service Station Youth), Jess Pushpop (Gameboy/Gamegirl, Service Station Youth, Wolfbrother), Tranter (Gameboy/Gamegirl, Wolfbrother), Escobar Hardcore Amsterdam (The Salivation Army, Mona Lisa Overdrive), Bekka Punishment (The Salivation Army), Motley Krueger (Spitfire Parade), Huge Eugene Hyland (Keith! Party, The Ballarat Courier), Cathead LaQuack (Keith! Party, Spitfire Parade), Worm (Keith! Party) and Richie!

Testosterone! - Talkshow Boy

https://blacksquares.bandcamp.com/album/3

art by eddy atoms

i fuck up everything but just see how long i'll stay mad at everyone
yeah i fuck up everything and i always blame everybody but myself
i do whatever setting myself up for failure is just how i tend to have fun
yeah im slime and sleaze im really not so hard to please i just want to be loved by everyone

my whole body feels like a clenched fist
la la la la la la la la la
my whole body feels like complete shit
la la la la la la la la la

but with my perfect judgement everything i do is right
so pure hearted in this awful world why do i even try
who knows what you think about me, felt so shitty yesterday
why do i even bother when i know i will again today

i fuck everything up
me i me i me me i me me i me i

iim so sick of thinking that things will be ok
that my life will be fine someday
it's been fucking years that ive been stuck in one place
i'll always be here because its me that wrong with me

Mom - I Fuck Everything Up

Testosterone!

I Cut Myself

https://blacksquares.bandcamp.com/album/3
arty by eddy atoms https://www.instagram.com/eddyatoms/
i’m going to fucking jump
i’m going to fill my lungs
i’m going to fucking yell
i’m going to have fun
way out in the sun and
i’m going to love myself
well if you want my blood
i’ll make so much blood
that you’re gonna fucking drown
i’ll always roll along
i’ve always been strong
getting stronger than myself

it feels like i’m under water
not content to do whatever
i hate every little choice I’ve made so
I’ve got no choice but to keep moving forwards
i hope one day life will be better
climb a ladder made of my sweat and
blood but the blood eater hungers
everything just keeps getting harder

I Cut Myself - Talkshow Boy

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